PA alone came out with 500k unemployment applications yesterday, so I too am looking over 4m.
Yeah, so they announced 3.3 million. I think that is on the low side. There is a backlog of applications in the states. And next week I think will be just as big. A lot of people shut down the week ending March 20. Those numbers and their applications are not baked in yet. And who knows how long it will take the states to process all the paperwork.
But hey, look at the bright side: public sector workers are still getting paid. ;-) Seriously, how about shifting all the state and municipal clerical staff sitting around doing nothing over to processing paperwork for unemployment and family relief funds? Nope. They don’t think about things like efficiency and productivity.